I was going through a good bit of this thread and i see your very helpful and good with translating into tengwar, could you please translate the following few quotes for me ive looked everywhere tryin to translate english to tengwar... If theres a few tengwar ways to do these could you just pick which looks the nicest

Maybe we must experience suffering before we learn to take risks

Change is the essence of life
Be willing to surrender what you are
For what you could become

I looked through the thread to try and find if my name Melissa had been translated and found a request for it but not the translation.
If it is here to be found please let me know and I will look again.
I would also like to have my children's names translated, Ive started a tutorial but I'm nowhere near being able to translate!
I would like the following names translated into Tengwar Annatar normal please

Melissa
Jason Maximus
Alanna Leslie Paige

Thank you!!

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Isildilmë wrote:In some source hwesta is also proposed for "ch", but often more for a "k" sounding "ch", as in Christ, for example. And in many sources they don't even propose any use for it, so I tend to use it the less possible, and to keep careful doing it. I often prefer to use calma for any "ch".

But as I always said, there are many ways to use tengwar, and we can find good sources to support each one of them ! Maybe the use of hwesta would be as good, or even better (who knows ? sadly we can't ask Tolkien his opinion !) then what I do, but that is what I feel comfortable with, and as far as I'm concerned, nothing indicates that it is wrong...

I don't know if it answers your question... and I don't know if my explanation is clear enough (that is one of the problem with my bad English !). If you have sources that you would like to share with me so we can discuss about it, it will be a pleasure.

Ah, thanks.
I don't have very many sources at all. The only thing I was going by for that is an image chart and all it says is hwesta is the "abbreviation for the "ch" in "church"".

sf702 wrote:I was going through a good bit of this thread and i see your very helpful and good with translating into tengwar, could you please translate the following few quotes for me ive looked everywhere tryin to translate english to tengwar... If theres a few tengwar ways to do these could you just pick which looks the nicest

I suggest you go one page 1 and read my first post of this thread to choose some fonts you like.

avogel57 wrote:Isildilmë--I wanted to say thank you again, and of course share with you the finished results: http://avogel57.deviantart.com/art/Wond ... -199199167 I'm quite pleased with the way that it turned out I took a little bit of creative license, flourishing the tails on some of the vowels, and replacing some of the punctuation/stops with flowers and such, but I think it still works given the context. I really enjoyed doing this; it turns out that the transcription I was able to come up with wasn't too far off of the mark, though there were a few glitches in mine, and of course it was in a different font/character set. It felt kind of like writing in Arabic (I studied it briefly a few years back), in the way that the characters flowed together, and made use of carriers for the vowel sounds. Going from the text to a script felt something akin to the medieval arabic use of text for flourishes as artwork unto itself. Very cool. I'm thinking of doing a couple more of these, a set, one each of Yavanna and the two trees, and Varda hallowing the heavens. I've got a few passages in mind, but I'm open to suggestions, and creative input from you and from everybody else out there

Also, is there a propper forum to post the above link, or to submit the artwork? I've seen a couple in the fanart section, but I'm still a bit of a newb lol

Anyhow, many thanks!--Alex

WOW Alex, this is great ! I wish I have this talent to illustrate Tolkien mythology ! Wonderful ! As you can see, I commented the picture on the site too.I'm working on a forum to post these pictures, but it won't be ready until a bit, but I'll sure post your pic there to share it with everybody (if you don't see any inconvenient, of course !).And I was wondering if there was any possibility for you to send it to me by email in larger resolution ?

Hi people, this is my first post on this sort of thing. Im wanting to get a tattoo of the English name Bella which I understand translates to Elvish as Vanya. How do I write this in tengwar?
Thanks,
Mat

Well, hi people. Like mat85, i will make a tattoo with my brother's name, but i need to make it perfect, in Tengwar Annatar (similar to the ring). In this case, i think it would be in Italic, isn't it?? Can someone help me??
If someone can translate the names, i will be very gratefull.
The names (i would like to see what is the best):

The Nightwalker wrote:thank you isildilme, its awesome, is there a way i can like copy and paste these images somewhere else so i have them on my computer?

Of course, you should be able to save it clicking on it with the right button... if it doesn't work, send me an email and I'll send it back to you as an attached file. (if you do so, remember me in the email what was the quote so I can find it quickly in my thousands of transcriptions !)